Banca de DEFESA: ROBERTO CAMPELO DA SILVA JUNIOR

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STUDENT : ROBERTO CAMPELO DA SILVA JUNIOR
DATE: 27/02/2027
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

Paths of an educational program: history, identity, and development of the undergraduate program in Public Health at UFRN.

KEY WORDS:

Public Health; Higher Education; Unified Health System; Curriculum; History of Public Health; Health Human Resource Training

PAGES: 97
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Saúde Coletiva
SUMMARY:

This dissertation reconstructs and analyzes the historical trajectory of the Public Health undergraduate program at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), from its creation in 2008 to 2025. The study combines documentary research and oral history, grounded in theoretical frameworks from the history of education, public health training, and discourse analysis. The corpus includes the program’s Pedagogical Projects (2008, 2013, and 2025), minutes from the Collegiate and the Structuring Teaching Nucleus (NDE), institutional documents, and records produced over nearly two decades, as well as interviews with fifteen key participants, six program coordinators, faculty members, students, and alumni. The methodological approach is qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory, drawing on documentary analysis (Cellard, 2008), thematic oral history (Thompson, 2000), and Bardin’s speeck analysis (2011). The findings show that the creation of the program was deeply shaped by the Support Program for Restructuring and Expansion Plans of Federal Universities (REUNI), established in 2007, which stimulated the expansion of undergraduate education across Brazil. This context enabled the implementation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Health Systems and Services Management, later consolidated as a Public Health program. Three historical phases were identified: the foundational period (2008–2012); the phase of curricular and identity expansion (2013–2019); and the stage of institutional maturity (2020–2025), marked by the consolidation of the professional identity of public health graduates. The narratives highlight institutional disputes, structural challenges, pedagogical innovations, and the program’s strategic contribution to the strengthening of the Unified Health System (SUS). The study concludes that the Public Health program at UFRN emerged from a complex historical process influenced by federal higher education expansion policies and broader transformations in the field of public health in Brazil. The combination of documentary analysis and oral history provided a deeper understanding of the program’s evolution, revealing subjective and institutional dimensions essential to its consolidation and future perspectives.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - DULCIAN MEDEIROS DE AZEVEDO
Presidente - 3474916 - JOSE JAILSON DE ALMEIDA JUNIOR
Interno - 1119740 - MAURICIO WIERING PINTO TELLES